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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

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This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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PROOF POINTS: Leading dyslexia treatment isn’t a magic bullet, studies find, while other options show promise

The Hechinger Report

In New York, where I live, the city spends upwards of $300 million a year in taxpayer funds on private school tuition for children with disabilities. Many dyslexia advocates remain loyal to Orton-Gillingham, McHale-Small said, because so many parents have kids whom they believe were helped by Orton-Gillingham tutors.

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Research on early college high schools indicates they may pay for themselves in the long run

The Hechinger Report

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Part of the extra cost is to cover the tutoring, coaching and counseling that are needed to help low-income high school students catch up and accelerate.

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As final year of college planning unfolds at Match: ‘What’s it gonna take?’

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You can stay after school. You can always talk to your tutors or your teachers. The so-called “ Match Corps’’ tutors commit to a year of service and are given a living allowance of $15,000 and subsidized housing. Match’s charter network, governed by a board of trustees, spans four campuses from pre-K through high school.

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As admissions season descends, warning signs appear for low-income applicants

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Private schools will tell their students to apply to 20” universities and colleges, said Cynthia Blair Tognotti, a private college counselor in Northern California. Tutoring and test-prep companies such as Signet Education report record business, the company’s president and chief operating officer said in an interview.

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High school seniors reveal choices in joyous ‘signing day’ ceremony

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Sweatshirts emblazoned with the 43 college choices that students would announce during the beloved pep-rally tradition known as “signing day” remained folded neatly beneath chairs. The dramatic reveal has become an increasingly common ritual at charter schools where college acceptance is both the goal and part of the culture.

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Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students is ‘hurting their future’

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Too often, by the time these students reach high school, problems that began in the early grades have reached a point of no return; too many children are pushed out into the real world ill-prepared for what lies ahead. To Nelson’s delight, once he started there, his grades dropped as he was finally challenged in school. “I

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